paulbrown said:jbonding said:Maybe not in this thread, i wasnt refering to this thread. I have a lot of people in mind, the ones who complain how much footballers get compared to nurses and police, its erelevant, but you did say this "So you like too see UK hospitals and schools closing down due to the lack of funds?" on this subject of paying for something or someone else. This money wouldnt be saved and put into hospitals and if bekham or john terry took a reduction in wages it wouldnt go near the doctors and nurses or into the hospitals, thats the point i was making
What an odd comment. If you weren't referring to this thread you should have made that clear at the time.
Can you not see the correlation between public money given to cheats(irrespective of where they are from) and public money spent on public services?
Clearly more spent on one means less is available for the others. The state has limited resources.
I note you have included this comment, of mine, in your above post.
I also said this too.but you did say this "So you like too see UK hospitals and schools closing down due to the lack of funds
If you were to say we were giving this money to starving kids in Africa I would applaud it. Or If it went to help pensioners and the sick, even if they were overseas, then I would also applaud that.
We are not talking about that though, we are talking about thieving conmen fiddling the system.
I am clearly against the fiddling of the public purse and consider £45M a considerable figure.
Footballers earnings don't come into it because, unlike nurses and the police, they are not paid out of the publc purse.
The point im making is whenever someone gets less or more, stupid comparisons are made, ie footballers,dieing children in africa,pensioners and the sick. The government will spend it on something else. Saying this money should go here or there never sorts the problem it just gives an escuse.
"We are not talking about that though, we are talking about thieving conmen fiddling the system." we are or you are?
I thought the topic was;
"The latest freebie to our new European friends is that they are entitled to claim family allowance for children that they have left behind in Poland/Latvia etc. "